Our Current Research


Currently Funded Researchers

The public donations that make all of our research possible allow us to fund the work of over 100 talented research professionals in top Irish institutions. Their research focuses on a range of cancer types across a number research priority areas including, early detection, better treatments, clinical trials, and survivorship.
Dr Daniel Angelov

Dr Daniel Angelov

Translational Research Scholarship 2021
Daniel’s PhD project aims to improve treatment of a rare and incurable form of blood cancer call follicular lymphoma by testing a promising new drug. Not only does he hope that these treatments will be more effective, but that patients will suffer from less treatment-associated side effects.

Professor Donal Brennan, University College Dublin

Professor Donal Brennan, University College Dublin

Women’s Health Initiative
The overall aim is to improve health and wellbeing for women cancer survivors at all stages of their cancer journey, by effectively managing menopausal symptoms, sexual dysfunction, mood and sleep disturbance.

Martin Brennan

Martin Brennan

Translational Research Scholarship 2021
Martin Brennan’s research hopes to help women avoid the devastating loss of fertility that often comes with treatment for endometrial cancer.

Professor Roisin Connolly, University College Cork

Professor Roisin Connolly, University College Cork

Women’s Health Initiative
Roisin will develop and coordinate a multi-disciplinary nurse-led survivorship clinic and symptom management pathway which integrates hospital and community services.

Adele Connor, University College Dublin

Adele Connor, University College Dublin

Translational Research Scholarship 2020
Adele has started her PhD research in ovarian cancer, titled, 'Investigating the heterogeneic biology of ovarian cancer metastases by high-resolution imaging to inform novel combination therapies'.

Professor Aoife Lowery

Professor Aoife Lowery

Women’s Health Initiative and Clinician Researcher Leadership Award
Professor Aoife Lowery will be leading the extension of the Women’s Health Initiative to Galway, where they will not only assist in the recruitment of UCC’s LYSA clinical trial, but also carry out a study investigating cardiotoxicity in breast cancer patients, facilitated by the buy-out time from the Clinician Research Leadership Award.

Dr Shirley Potter

Dr Shirley Potter

Clinician Research Leadership Award
Dr Potter is carrying out research into using less extensive surgery for melanoma patients, resulting in less scarring and postoperative pain, as well as faster recovery and hopefully the same survival outcomes.

Dr Graeme Sullivan

Dr Graeme Sullivan

Translational Research Fellowship 2021
Graeme’s research is focused on relapsed multiple myeloma, looking firstly to understand why existing treatments aren’t always effective, identifying new targets, and testing new drug combinations to target them, translating into improved survival and QOL for patients.

Catriona Duggan

Catriona Duggan

Cancer Nursing Research Award 2021
This research project is a mixed methods study to evaluate the effectiveness of ultrasound for peripheral intravenous cannulation in oncology patients.

Jennifer Fitzpatrick

Jennifer Fitzpatrick

SNAH Scholarship 2021
Jennifer’s project is titled, “The development, implementation and evaluation of a health behaviour change intervention for adolescents who have completed active cancer treatment”

Yvonne Hanhauser (Advanced Nurse Practitioner St James’) and Prof Anne-Marie Brady (Professor of Nursing and Chronic Illness, TCD)

Yvonne Hanhauser (Advanced Nurse Practitioner St James’) and Prof Anne-Marie Brady (Professor of Nursing and Chronic Illness, TCD)

Irish Cancer Society Nursing Research Award 2019 (in collaboration with Health Research Board, the National Cancer Control Programme, and the Office of the Nursing & Midwifery Services Directory)
This project will develop and online tool to assist women with a BRCA+ gene mutation to make decisions about their care.

Chloe Moore

Chloe Moore

SNAH Scholarship 2021
Chloe’s research project is titled, “ ENHANCE- EnhaNcing Health literAcy amoNg Cancer caregivErs”. The aim of this research is to develop and pilot test an intervention for cancer caregivers designed to increase their health literacy levels.

Sophie Mulcahy Symmons

Sophie Mulcahy Symmons

SNAH Scholarship 2021
Sophie’s research project will aim at promoting HPV cervical screening by co-designing an educational intervention to overcome barriers and promote screening uptake in under-represented groups.